Posted on 03/05/2016 12:49:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the Kansas Republican caucus, very early returns have Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in the lead. With 3 percent of the results in, Cruz has 53 percent of the vote, followed by Donald Trump with 21 percent, John Kasich with 15 percent, and Marco Rubio with 10 percent. The Kansas Republican Party released a statement earlier Saturday, saying turnout across the state was "incredible," with some locations reporting "four of five" times the number of voters who came out in 2012. Republicans are also caucusing today in Kentucky and Maine, and holding a primary in Louisiana.
I think Rubio and Ryan do not belong anywhere near a conservative group.
Many of them would say, “See? This is what we meant when we said don’t have political parties.”
KS 18%
Cruz 49
Trump 26
Rubio 14
Oh gosh. You guys have me so furious that I can’t get my names straight. Well bravo on screwing me up. Many have tried, Cruz supporters have succeeded. Lol.
The two Kansas polls (within the last two weeks) had Trump up by 12 and 14%. The poll company that had Trump up by 14%, also has Trump up by 22% in Michigan and 18% in Louisiana.
RCP doesn’t have any polls for Kentucky.
“Trump does it all the time and I cringe.”
He is referring to his company.
Kansas is proportional. I waited an hour and a half and gave up in my attempt to vote in Sedgwick (Wichita) county. The dumb as dickweeds in the Kansas Repub party had one voting caucus site in all of the county. Average time to vote was said to be 3 hours.
I would have thought with all the incompetence it must have been a fed govt operation, but no the KS repubs get to claim all the credit for the totally mismanaged affair.
Never heard Trump do that ever but Dole always did.
KS 20%
Cruz 48.5
Trump 26.4
Rubio 13.7
I heard him say "They are not treating Donald Trump right." He was referring to himself. And he does it repeatedly. Megalomania.
Polls say otherwise against Hillary C, but Trump on the otherhand loses to her head-on-head.
23% now
Still 49-26, Kansas is over, all that’s in doubt is the margin of victory.
Trump refers to himself in the third person all the time. Aren't you listening?
That’s terrible that you didn’t get to vote.
If these numbers stick here is what is interesting.
Polls were way off.
No one cared about endorsements.
There are still a lot of votes to count, but I’m feeling good about it.
So did Reagan 1980 against Carter
Reagan was losing big in March
But good thing we don’t hold national presidential elections in March....
I don't see how Trump can come back from this far behind with 20% in. Maybe he'll make it closer and draw a moral victory from that.
For perspective, both Santorum and Huckabee got over 50% of the vote in 2012 and 2008 with eventual nominees Romney and McCain finishing a distant second place (about 20 per cent). So Kansas is very much like Iowa in this regard.
“Polls say otherwise against Hillary C, but Trump on the otherhand loses to her head-on-head.”
I am sure that you have seen where Carter was crushing Reagan almost to the end of the general election. And you quote Hillary polls this early? Or believe them?
Yep, Cruz was forecasted to win Kansas today and Trump the other 3 states. But with proportional delegate allocations the difference in delegates will be small between first and second and possibly 3rd.
Trump is targeting 16 of the 40 delegates in KS.
And he is targeting 53 out of the the 115 in the remaining 3 states.
So Trump would like 69 out of the 155 delegates up for grabs today.
Yes you are correct.
District 3 is where I would guess a more liberal candidate might pick up votes. In Kansas, Trump is viewed as a liberal. Not by everyone, I’m sure. But by many.
The vote numbers are very low right now
Cities haven’t turned in their totals yet
We shall see
The percent is precincts, not votes cast
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